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EPIDENDRUM dipus. 
Two-footed Epidendrum. 
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GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORcninacEx. $ ErrpeNDREx—LLIADA. Natural Sys- 
tem of Botany, ed. 3. (ined.) 
EPIDENDRUM. Linn. 
$. Spathium. Bot. Reg. 1844. misc. 82. 
E. dipus ; foliis longis flaccidis distichis subacuminatis, paniculà nutante 
densà multiflorà e spathis 2 herbaceis erumpente, sepalis oblongo- 
lanceolatis petalisque linearibus obtusis patentibus, labelli trilobi lobis 
lateralibus semicircularibus planis intermedio bilobo laciniis linearibus 
recurvis dente minuto nunc interjecto ; basi bicallosi venis 2 elevatis. 
One of those innumerable species inhabiting South Ame- 
rican forests, to the enumeration of which there seems no end. 
It was imported by Messrs. Loddiges, from Brazil, and pro- 
duced its densely clustered panicles of sweet-scented green, 
brown and white flowers in January. 
In many respects it approaches E. nutans, but its pan'-le 
is very much more compact, its colour is more that of E. pani- 
culatum, and the form of its lip is different, the two terminal 
lobes being very narrow, and bowed back like the fore legs of 
the splay-footed truffle dogs. 
When we lately published an enumeration of the species of 
the section Spathium, to which this belongs, it was overlooked, 
having been mistaken for the very different E. rubrocinctum 
(or densiflorum ?). 
